Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30

Listening to night migration flight calls. Low clouds seem to be keeping them low… Some sound like they're barely above the trees. # Just saw a prob Merlin take a LESA right in front of me. Close enough to hear the whoosh… Was a little startling. # Standing in a sharp rain drive by a … Read more

Least Sandpipers

Connor, Rowan and I took a walk around the park this evening not too long after high tide. Connor and Rowan had taken the path through the woods to skip ahead of me while I completed the circuit aound the shoreline from the river mouth to the Visitor’s Center. I was walking past the first … Read more

Sandpipers and Hornworm

At the end of a walk around the beach (with some shorebird excitement – see other post from today), Rowan found a large caterpillar at the upper edge of the beach. I was able to get some pictures of it, before it dropped down into some vegetation and we were unable to re-find it. With … Read more